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Aug 02, 2015

All the Smiling Degenerates, Looking Good while advancing Moral Depravity.

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Is there some reason you ignore my friend requests and messages on facebook? I keep trying to talk to you and you keep ignoring me. What have I done that offends you?

Date: Fri Oct 04 05:26:47 2013From: Vic BiorsethComment:

Ignored:

Please accept my apologies; it has nothing to do with you. My FaceBook account was hacked or compromised in some way by an identity thief pretending to be me. Since that experience, I no longer communicate with anyone using FaceBook.

It's nothing personal; I just don't chat and jabber on social media any more. Here, I do. Nothing gets posted on this website by anyone other than me. There is no real control over your own account in social media, and that's the reason.

Regards,

Vic

Date: Sun Oct 20 21:45:57 2013From: MichaelEmail:Location:Comment:

Hello,

I
love your site, and I've been trying to read as much as possible over
the last few weeks. I agree with most everything you've written, but
I've struggled with my faith over the years and am not exactly sure what
to believe in anymore.

I've
recently read the work of Ian Stevenson who made a living studying the
claims of reincarnation, and I believe he has made a pretty good case
for it (along with numerous cases for it). In addition, there are a
multitude of Near-Death-Experiences in which the experiences not only
taught reincarnation, but all the experiences seem to suggest that while
there is a God, there appears to be no such place as hell, or even
Satan.

However, I despise
the New Age philosophy because they are almost all leftists, and preach
that there is no such thing as evil, which I strongly disagree with. I
find myself identifying much more with the Catholic faith then with any
New Age religion, but, I can't seem to get my mind of of these two major
points, which both are in direct opposition to the Churches
teaching.

I was just
wondering what your thoughts are on the subject of reincarnation and
NDEs. Is there evidence that suggests that reincarnation isn't real and
NDEs are just a product of the mind?

Thanks,

Michael

Date: Tue Oct 29 05:50:30 2013From: Vic BiorsethComment:

Michael:

Sorry for the delay in responding, but I have been having computer problems.

The
difference between Catholicism and non-Christian, non-Jewish religions
is vast. When different kinds of Christians and different kinds of Jews
argue religious points with each other, they argue about differing
recognitions and interpretations of that which they all recognize as
Revelation. It is a body of knowledge revealed to man by God. It is
not so with other religious belief systems.

In
all other religions, man sought God, and came up with some hopeful
representation of what they thought God should or could be. In
Judeo-Christianity, alone, God came to man. In no other
religion is this true. He Who made it all, Who made man, also made
freedom, or liberty, and placed it in the heart of man, out of love.

God
wanted man to love God, and love is only possible in the presence of
liberty, because if love is not given freely, it is not love. But
freedom allows wrong decisions; the propensity of love given freely
accompanies the propensity of hate, and of wrong choices freely made.

At
first, He walked and talked with man in the Garden. After the fall, He
came to Noah, to save a remnant. He tested Abraham. He sent Johah to
save Niniveh. He inspired Moses, gave him the Law and equipped him as a
leader. Finally, He sent Himself, in the "person" of Jesus the
Redeemer, to take upon Himself our guilt, to free us from our sin, if we would be free of it, and to show us the Way.

For
those looking for worldly proofs, much of salvation history as recorded
in Scripture is solidly backed up by archaeological and non-Scriptural
historical evidences. For those looking for logical proofs, the
ancient Greeks, and perhaps others, arrived at the conclusion of the
singularity of God from the Primal First Mover argument, described in the faith versus atheism page. This argument says that even if there be other gods, they must have been created by the original god. Something had to be first.

It
is not by science or by logic that you will find ultimate salvation,
but by faith, hope and love. Read the first chapter of John. It's all
right there.

Regarding reincarnation and near death
experiences, all I can say is, the only supporting evidences are
ephemeral, which is to say, not physical. It consists solely of reports
by fallible human beings about experiences and or dreams. Whether any
particular event as reported was inspired by God, or by angels, or by
demons, or merely by the mind that told the story is indeterminate.

For
me, the test of whether such an imagining or dream or story might have
validity is whether it supports or contradicts Revelation - the
protected deposit of faith from which we draw hope. The Revelation does
not change. (There is no reincarnation in the Revelation.) If the
event or report supports or at least does not contradict Revelation,
which is to say, it does not ad to it, subtract from it or change it,
then, it may be true.

Regarding the existence of Satan
and Hell, Bishop Sheen and others have pointed out the fact that Satan
is never happier and never makes more progress in the world he rules
than when his potential victims do not even believe that he exists.

Regards,

Vic

Date: Mon Nov 04 19:54:19 2013From: MichaelEmail:Location:Comment:

Hi Vic,

Thanks for your response, I appreciate it. I will look into the archaeological evidence. I enjoy reading your site, and look forward to reading more in the future.

Michael

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"All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics." Pope Pius V

…There he goes again, trying to pick another fight with someone…

Pick a webpage, any webpage; pick a subject, any subject. Or start your own New Subject. Then draw your rhetorical sword and step out onto the field of honor. So, what are you waiting for? Stand up; come on out here.

Never be lukewarm.Life itself demands passion.He who is indifferent to God has already forfeited his soul.He who is indifferent to politics has already forfeited his liberty.In America, religion is not mere window dressing and citizenship is not a spectator sport.Do not allow our common destiny as a whole people to just happen without your input.

Atheist Genesis:

In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.
And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?

“ … for I have sworn upon
the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind
of man.” wrote Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush in
the year of our Lord 1800. The context
involved resistance to any form of Christianity or Deism legally imposing
itself throughout the USA. We must wonder what he might say
about our current government's forced imposition of strict secularism – i.e.,
anti-theism – throughout the USA. I submit that legally enforced secularism of society, like theocracy, like Marxism,
and like Islam, is, precisely, a form of tyranny over the mind of man.Nothing good can come from the religious cleansing of Judeo-Christian society. Government imposed secularism is just another form of theocracy.